By Colin Campbell (NYT)

Published: April 6, 2005

Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew said he had demanded of Iran that the remains of the photojournalist Zahra Kazemi be returned for an independent autopsy. Ms. Kazemi, 54, who had both Canadian and Iranian citizenship, was arrested after taking pictures of a protest outside a Tehran prison in 2003, while on a visit to Iran. She died in custody shortly after. Iran's account is that she fell and fractured her skull. But last week, an Iranian doctor who recently found asylum in Canada said he had examined Ms. Kazemi at a Tehran hospital days before her death and documented evidence that she had been beaten, tortured and raped. Colin Campbell (NYT)